2023 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN Mrs SD

~FlowerPot~

Florenceem said:

Been away for a week  - got back last Thursday evening - Friday was getting ready for the table top sale. Saturday was the usual tiring sale day - we raised £815.92.
Sunday was spent all day at SA - it was new members enrollment followed by a lunch and Songs of Praise time.
Monday morning was a funeral at our old Church - we went to the wake in the Church hall as the service was poorly attended and we wanted to support the family who we know well. On Monday evening - we went to the first week of an Alpha course at SA.
I needed to change some items that I bought while away in Nottingham so went to the nearby shopping centre on Tuesday morning. In the afternoon I had a mega baking session - used 22 eggs - I made 2 large lemon sponge puddings for Wednesday's SA lunch plus a jam sponge pudding for us.
Yesterday was SA friendship/lunch club so a tiring time then I spent hours in the office with the captain counting money. He has asked if I will become the new Corps treasurer which will involve training.
Weather here today is dreadful - people were advised to remain at home.

I was actually wondering where you were today, so im pleased you are both ok, just busy! I hope you had a nice time away
Flowers x

TC77

Quick pop in, not done any physical decluttering but having had a shock going on my emails and seeing 1.2k ! (this is one of two personal emails) - managed to get down to just over 900!

190 phone contacts deleted. Have to move stuff over to a new phone- not good at all these, as old phone broke and lost lots of stuff!

Liverpool_Anne

Hi all, very wet and breezy here today but I did have to go out twice to collect my meds. The first time I went they hadn't been made up. I think they must have been short staffed in the chemist as 3 people in front of me were also asked to call back, they weren't ready the second time either but I said I would wait for them, took about 15 mins. Anyhow they are all sorted now .
The bedroom recycling was emptied and the bathroom bin. As the weather was so atrocious I had a sort out of some of the ends of candles and made up a big one, there are 5 empty candle jars soaking, a couple of really nice ones I will probably keep to use as planters and the rest I will either take to the cs, put on the free site, decorate with glass paint or recycle depending on if I can get the labels off.
I then went on the laptop and ordered OHs jeans and had a go at my emails, 200 deleted.

@EnergyShifter you have my sympathies, bathroom and kitchen renovations are hell. OH leaves it all to me and both these rooms need doing and I am dreading it

@Mrs SD my Drs use my mobile to send me messages, reminders to get my covid jab etc but annoyingly they will also call me on it when I have phone consults even though I have told them the signal in my house is terrible and to use the landline.grrr.

@TC77, I was told to keep phone numbers on the SIM card and to also have a written back up last time I killed my phone. The nice man in the phone shop transfered everything for me but it did take a while and I have since backed up my photos by putting them on a usb stick, not much help now I know but might be useful for the future.

Ok, off to bed now, woodland funeral tomorrow so I am hoping it has stopped raining by then. Hugs to everyone who would like one

1453 meds collected and sorted
1454 bedroom recycling emptied
1455 bathroom bin emptied
1456 candles sorted
1457 + 1458 200 emails permanently deleted
1459 OH's jeans ordered

Take care everyone
1459/2023

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. Write a daily To Do list - only 3 tasks to include MMiM - do this before I go to bed

2. Commence ‘Operation Frog Tickling’ I have an acronym - I.R.I.S. being Identify, Research, Implement, Sign Off 

3. Implement a new sleep/wake up regime - start going to bed earlier (target before 2:00 a.m.) get up earlier (target by 9:00 a.m.)

4. Deal with ‘Urgent’ daily mail immediately & the rest at the weekend

5. Don’t put it down, put it away

6. If I spot a mini task deal with it immediately e.g. refill olive oil pourer or salt cellar, stitch up a hole in a garment etc

7. Continue to keep kitchen clean & tidy - before going to bed

So much for coming back later to cheerlead 😉 I have finished another scarf & started yet another 😉Dinner was breadcrumbed fish, oven chips & baked beans. Wudupa

2251 - 2252 Kitchen recycling, drinks cans - recycled 

2253 Kitchen detritus binned

vulpix, earlier in the year we had quite a lively conversation about hedgehogs with some lovely pics 😊You are most welcome re the pattern - just thinking that feather & fan stitch might make a lovely fancy looking baby blanket 😉 Meanwhile good luck finishing the UFOs 🍀 Like you I am really enjoying lurking on the stash busting thread 😉 although I think you have done far more crafting than you have given yourself credit for 🤔 Everyone is so talented & it is one of my daily pleasures to admire other people’s crafting skills 👏 A decent haul from the cs & very reasonably priced 😊 Well done on your continuing weight loss 👏

Soontobeoap, what a beautiful quilt 😍  Excellent work dealing with the frog 👏

flamingo747, I hope the trampoline stayed put in your garden & you managed to sleep Wednesday night🤞

Well said QueenJess & Floss 😊

Wishing everyone a restful night 🛌 

MrsSD (a superwoman) 😇 🎖💐🤩🏅🦸🏅💐🏆 💐🍰🍾🌟⭐️🌟 💐🏅💐🏅💐💐💐🏅💐 ⭐️ ❤️🏅🍾🏅 📣🦸‍♀️💐 ⭐️ 🏅 💐 (✨✨ aka platinum stars) 😇 🏅 💐💐 💐 ⭐️ 🏅 🏆

DH Awards: 🥇🏅⭐️💐,  perseverance medal 🎖️, 🥇 🏅🏅 😇

Decluttering Target 2023: 2253/2023

1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £469.00

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. Write a daily To Do list - only 3 tasks to include MMiM - do this before I go to bed

2. Commence ‘Operation Frog Tickling’ I have an acronym - I.R.I.S. being Identify, Research, Implement, Sign Off 

3. Implement a new sleep/wake up regime - start going to bed earlier (target before 2:00 a.m.) get up earlier (target by 9:00 a.m.)

4. Deal with ‘Urgent’ daily mail immediately & the rest at the weekend

5. Don’t put it down, put it away

6. If I spot a mini task deal with it immediately e.g. refill olive oil pourer or salt cellar, stitch up a hole in a garment etc

7. Continue to keep kitchen clean & tidy - before going to bed

Friday is another dismal day but so far dryish 🤞I am up but not yet dressed 😉

Will have my first cuppa & then get dressed warmly as DH & I both have appointments at the dentist 😥 Fingers crossed mine is just a checkup, scale & polish but DH needs more work 😣 

TC77, great decluttering & dealing with appointments on Wednesday 👏 Numbers are rising steadily 😊 Thanks for the reminder re Christmas cards 👏

sillyvixen, what a pain re the exploding lightbulb 😱 Typical that it waited until the clocks changed 😔Perhaps a head torch might be useful 🤔leaving both hands free to change the fitting & put in a new bulb 🙂 Good luck emptying the car boot 🍀

Liverpool_Anne, sorry to hear that you have been having sleepless nights 😔 Fingers crossed that you slept better on Thursday night 🤞Loving all the chat - not waffle - about various topics 😊 Keeping everything crossed that your Christmas plans are finalised soon 🤞 What an awful concept ‘mischief night’ 😖 Perhaps the police should appropriate the 30th & use it to bump up their arrest figures 😉 I have pm’d the pattern which will hopefully make more sense now 🤞

I have caught up a little so will now finish my cuppa & get dressed to go out 😉 Hope everyone has as good a day as possible 🤞

MrsSD (a superwoman) 😇 🎖💐🤩🏅🦸🏅💐🏆 💐🍰🍾🌟⭐️🌟 💐🏅💐🏅💐💐💐🏅💐 ⭐️ ❤️🏅🍾🏅 📣🦸‍♀️💐 ⭐️ 🏅 💐 (✨✨ aka platinum stars) 😇 🏅 💐💐 💐 ⭐️ 🏅 🏆

DH Awards: 🥇🏅⭐️💐,  perseverance medal 🎖️, 🥇 🏅🏅 😇

Decluttering Target 2023: 2253/2023

1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £469.00

vulpix

Good morning declutterati.

 Well knock me down with a feather! Mr V sorted through the box of papers. a lot of things posted and claimed on our local thrift site,some to be squirreled away in his studio, some things thrown away. I have put all my certificates of qualification in the recycling and just kept some photos and a few cards the children made when they were young.All away in my bedside drawers. Probably revisit them at a later date,although I do them quite regularly.

 The house is perilously close to having everything away in it's own home. It's taken 2 years to reduce everything enough for it all to comfortably fit. Upstairs is done, I am happy with it. I feel comfortable with the amount of possessions we have. Of course clothes are a moveable feast for me, I love clothes and realise that I buy a lot but also donate a lot compared to most. I do shop at charity shops and secondhand for most of them. there is one box still packed of things that were on the bookcase in our bedroom. I will leave it until the new carpet has been fitted.There is also a box of stuff in the shed which was on the sitting room bookcase which I sold! Some condensing to be done ANF(after new flooring).

 Downstairs I need to rearrange the kitchen cupboards as I just shoved things in when I unpacked the boxes.Under the stairs is a feast for the eyes with matching boxes from our local sweet factory full of Christmas decorations. I know I need to reduce , this is a very difficult area for me. I only have room for one tree at this house,yet I could decorate the street! It is all so close to being maintainance mode. I have lost a door curtain. from when everything was packed up before the new kitchen, I have no idea what I have done with it,hoping it will turn up,I took ages making it and the matching window curtains.

 This then leaves the sheds. We have a massive insulated shed divided in two with a studio one side and storage the other, each side has its own door. I have had Mr V bring in all lurking house things in which went in prior to renovations. wall pictures and wall clocks. I was hoping the missing curtain might have been in there. House things still in there are a Christmas tree and a butlers tray,too big to go under the stairs.
 There are also two half sheds like a bike shed. One has tools the other currently houses a pine chest of drawers which I will renovate for DGS and some gardening stuff,bags of compost etc. The last one is a sentry box which has all my gardening paraphernalia in. Next years jobs are to paint and tidy them.

 I am so happy to know that my children will not have to make decisions about the contents of the house when it needs to be emptied. They can take what they want and send the rest to charity. There will be no broken,defunct things to sort through. Unlike my Mum's house. She has kept everything for justin.

 Today I will undercoat the door curtain pole to be a similar colour to the curtain one. Then we are off to my Mum's house. Mr V is having 2 cupboards for in his studio and bit by bit is having a chest of drawers for her Grandaughter. All have been emptied but need to be brought down stairs.

 Next week a fabulous event will happen. My lovey handy Step Son is coming to put up a blind,pictures,clock,move heavy garden pots, put up a manger on the garden wall, mainly things that need a drill.Top man. I will make him his favourite spag bol.

 1177. 5 picture frames
 1178. pile of certificates and other paper
 1179. wooly hat
 1181. photo frames
 1184. 1960's footie programmes
 1185. pewter tankard
 1187. 2 packs of wallpaper paste

  Vx
 

short_bird

Funny old week. Already discombobulated from the hour change, by Guy Fawkes Night I will have worked 7 evenings out of the last 8. I've carved out a heap of socialising for the rest of the month and there's a food order in for Sunday morning..
3882-3883: CD and enamel badge delivered to the ex.
3884: dentist and hygienist visit decluttered. 
3885-3404: items to bin
3405-3416: 12 GB data deleted. 
3417-3418: 100 emails deleted.

~FlowerPot~

Apparently it's reading week next week, so 'could you come and collect me? ' was our phone call at lunch time. 
Don't you just love your Children!!! 🤔
So much notice he's given me.!! So I've told them to get a train! I do feel a little bit guilty, but actually they need to be able to be a bit more independent! I also said I would pay this time! 
I was on the phone with DS1 last night and he didnt mention it at all🤦
I would have driven, but my face pain is a bit nasty today, so not up for a 4 hour round trip on a Friday tea time 😳
Anyway moaning aside i can't wait to have him home, made his room up, i have missed him loads. 
Happy Friday everyone

GrannyKate

Evening all.  Weather turned out quite nice today and two loads of washing put out lunch time were almost dry when I fetched them in.  Enough to just fill my two clothes horses so nothing put in dryer.  DGD4 hurt her ankle at school so I went and collected her early - only a minor strain but given her some ibuprofen and Calpol for children.  Not really done much but did remember to take large bag of plastic to SM and returned some empty inhalers to pharmacy.  Bought last card needed for November and some more Christmas cards. Bedroom three walls painted but need a second coat.  Hopefully room will be done for DGS4 for middle of week. 

1633 Quiz done and paper recycled
1634 Empty Inhalers to pharmacy
1635 Changed DS2's address at dentists whilst I was there yesterday
1636 Small frog dealt with at school
1637 Large bag of plastic to SM
1638 Sorted birthday gift and card for DGS4 to take to party on Sunday (I am away) 

Florenceem

I managed to have a day indoors yesterday. I got Mr F to empty our small chest freezer so I could do a stock take. Now the meat is on left side - fish on a shelf, bakery on right side and bits in the basket. I have worked out that I can get 49 dinners from the stock list. Still need to do a stock take on the new freezer. 
I baked last night and had a failure so cakes went in the freezer for puddings with custard. I tried to use plain flour with baking powder instead of self raising.
I popped to SA this morning - and ended up being there for nearly 4 hours. I was helping to sort through stuff upstairs - we are getting some storage bins so culling supplies.